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Dark Carnival (First Edition In Dust Jacket, Signed By Bradbury)

Dark Carnival (First Edition In Dust Jacket, Signed By Bradbury)

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Dark Carnival (First Edition In Dust Jacket, Signed By Bradbury)

by Bradbury, Ray; G. Barrows Dustjacket

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Near Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket
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About This Item

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947. First Edition . Black Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good Dustjacket. 313 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. Signed By Bradbury. One Of A Stated Edition Of 3000; Chalker Cites 3112 Copies As The Actual Printing Run. A Bright Clean Example, Light Wear Along Bottom Edge Of Book, Hinges Tight, No Marks, No Fraying, Spine Gilt All Bright Although With A Few Minute Losses To Gilt In Publisher's Name. Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped, Light Edge Wear, Tiny Chips At Corners, Under 1/8", And About 1/32" Chipping Along Bottom And Top Spine Edges, Light Rubbing At A Few Places, Both Flaps Clean And Bright, Red Lettering On Spine Faded To Pink But Clear, Red Lettering On Front Panel Still Bright Red. (A Member Of The Lasafs, Himself Later The Dedicatee Of A Philip K. Dick Novel, Received This Book When The Book Came Out In 1947; And He Remembered Bradbury Coming In To Lasfs With A Stack Of His New Author's Copies, Of Which This Is One. It Was Much Later Signed For Me By Bradbury.)

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Bookseller
Arroyo Seco Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
018934
Title
Dark Carnival (First Edition In Dust Jacket, Signed By Bradbury)
Author
Bradbury, Ray; G. Barrows Dustjacket
Format/Binding
Black Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine Book
Jacket Condition
Very Good Dustjacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Arkham House
Place of Publication
Sauk City
Date Published
1947
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
General
Bookseller catalogs
Rare And Unusual Books; "Literature: Science Fiction;

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Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
New
A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Flap(s)
The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Price Clipped
When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Chipping
A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...

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